Browsing: Stelvio Cipriani

Shameless Films offers a tropical treat with Joe D’Amato’s Caribbean-set exploitation classic, PAPAYA, LOVE GODDESS OF THE CANNIBALS. A quintessential example of D’Amato’s maverick filmmaking, PAPAYA, LOVE GODDESS OF THE CANNIBALS combines his signature elements of nudity, eroticism, and in this case, brutal cannibalistic horror. Starring the captivating Sirpa Lane—muse of Walerian Borowczyk and…

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One of several ‘animal-in-the-title’ cash-ins released in the wake of Dario Argento’s box-office smash The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, THE IGUANA WITH THE TONGUE OF FIRE is a gloriously excessive giallo that boasts a rogues gallery of perverse characters; violent, fetishized murders, and one of the genre’s most nonsensical, red-herring laden…

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THE NIGHT CHILD *** Italy / UK 1975 Dir: Massimo Dallamano. 90 mins A modest but haunting picture from the highly talented director of WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO SOLANGE? set to a typically beautiful, bewitching score by Stelvio Cipriani. Documentary filmmaker Richard Johnson, working on a project about “diabolical…

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